Improvement in trap-attachment for gas-fixtures



dial-ted smu w ni Lettersletent No. 107,264, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPRoV -MENT m 'rRAlP-A'rmcHMsNTr oR GAS- IXTURES.-

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern v gBe it'known. that I, J. Bunnows HYDE, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a In producing illuminating or heating gaS by passing atmospheric air through or over light hydrocarbon fluids, and in enriching ordinary commercial gas by the same process, the air or the gas being'thereby saturated with the'vapors of [the fluid, in proportion to the temperature of either one or the other, when passing into the carbureting-vessel or apparatus, and the nature or'condition oi the fluidused, it follows that if-the temperature of the carbureted medium be lessened in the conducting-pipes, condensation must occur, and be due to the equation of the two temperatures. For. examplezIf the gas-o1; the air passes into the carbureter at 80 temperature, and when in the pipes or gas-holder falls to 60, a due proportionof the vapor returns to its fluid. condition.

This fluid trickles along the pipes, and finally down to the lowest point of rest, which is usually at or near a burner branch, where it aocum ulat-es until, 011 turning the stop-cock, a stream of fluid escapes unseen in the dark, and as the flame orspark for ignition is ap-. plied, instead of an upright flame of gas, a downward stream of liquid. fire start-les the attendant, whose clothing, if intervening, is ignited, and it not, the fire, which water will not extinguish, is communicated to the floor, carpet, orother property, if not to the building itself.

. Such occurrences have been frequen t,but, like other accidental ineendiarisms, are usually suppressed, from the interest or pride of the parties employing these inventions. Their frequency, however,and the attendant loss therefrom, have induced the insurance. ofl icials to resolve. not to take risks in 'prop'erty where' this system of lighting is used, except. under 'special regulations as to locality and management-,iifat all.

The nature of my invention consists in attaching a closed drip-vessel or ultimate safety-reservoir, to

some proper part of the gas-pipe, or placed under and.

near to the branches or burners, according as the-"lo cality and position of the gas-pipes, shallrendernecessary, but so that the condensed fluid shall flow into the vessel from the pipes, instead of out at the burnerf 'J To this receiving-vessel-or trap asmall cock is "at-.

tached, for drawing off the fluid, when necessary, or the cock may be dispensed with, and the reservoir be unscrewed and removed from the pipe or branch, and the contents emptied out.

-' In the drawings-- n represents the gas-supp] y pipe; I), the burner-branches and c, the trap-vessel, which may,'however, be attached purpose set forth. J. BURR-OWS HYDE. \Vitn'esses O. B. DAVIS, F. G. MORRILL. 

